A Digital Audiovisual Archive with DSpace

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A Digital Audiovisual Archive with DSpace

• Federal Agency for Political Education
• Berlin, Germany

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Agenda

• About us
• Idea behind the project
• Main requirements
• How we'd like to modify DSpace
• How wed like DSpace to be modified
• Contact

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The Federal Agency of Political
Education(Bundeszentrale fuer politische
Bildung/bpb)

• Governmental organisation (non-profit, non-party)
  founded 1952 in Bonn
• Claim promoting awareness for democracy and
  participation in politics
• Target groups multipliers such as teachers,
  professors, journalists, and people interested in
  politics and history
• Instruments books, websites, DVDs, CDs,
  seminars, trainings, study trips, exhibitions,
  etc.

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Idea behind the project

• Increased demand for audiovisual content in
  citizenship education
• Need to make all our videos and audios available
  on-line (at least for restricted user groups)
• Use open source software to enable partner
  organisations to adopt the system easily

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Main requirements

• Apply different access rights of different user
  groups to content objects automatically
• Metadata for audio and video (e.g. duration, time
  based publishing, license model based on media
  type)
• Efficient search methods on a large scale of
  metadata (e.g. media type, duration)
• CMS interface

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Planned modification of DSpace

• Extension of metadata set
• User interface modifications to enhance usability
• Simplified methods to link an item to different
  collections
• Enhanced support for two phase item creation
  (metadata online, media offline)

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Desired features of DSpace

• Full implementation of the history function
• Multi-language support in user interface elements
  rendered through java classes

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Contact

• Henry Braeutigam, project manager
• Federal Agency for Civic Education, Berlin
• braeutigam_at_bpb.de
• Nils Hergert, senior technical consultant
• Subshell GmbH, Hamburg
• hergert_at_subshell.com
• Jo Seiler, senior technical consultant
• init AG Digitale Kommunikation, Berlin
• jo.seiler_at_init.de

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Looking forward to your comments!